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upgrades for rural homes and community facilities in states like alabama, alaska, florida, hawaii, kentucky, and massachusetts. so, madam president, i -- i go through this list of where these projects are to -- to -- to ensure that members know. we're not just talking about a benefit to a state like alaska, where our energy costs are enormously high, but -- but states such as alabama, where they might not be facing the cold winters but they're certainly facing the hot summers, and how they too can be more energy efficient, how they too can benefit from -- from programs that help to reduce t the -- the high energy costs that they face in their state. this program has been one of the smartest things that congress has done since the pattage of the rural -- passage of the rural electrification program back in the 1930's. it's provided assistance to run modern power lines on indian reservations, help to propel economic activity where it's needed most in this country, it's provided aid to towns off the interstate transmission grid and a number of towns in the west that are isolated and -- and not
upgrades for rural homes and community facilities in states like alabama, alaska, florida, hawaii, kentucky, and massachusetts. so, madam president, i -- i go through this list of where these projects are to -- to -- to ensure that members know. we're not just talking about a benefit to a state like alaska, where our energy costs are enormously high, but -- but states such as alabama, where they might not be facing the cold winters but they're certainly facing the hot summers, and how they too...
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a move that will stun many observers because ferguson was considering duke, florida, kentucky, indiana and ucla. he said he plans to sign a letter of intent in november. >> red sox versus yankees. so much at stake. boston designated a pl >> now on espnews. red sox ace josh beckett seeking to be the first one to 14 wins faces a.j. burnett and the yankees. the man who was smorthed by the bombers last night smoltz has been designated for assignment and tigers woods remains in par and phil mickelson finds an eagle. ♪ ♪ >> welcome to espnews. where we are always keeping you current. with mark morgan, i am michelle lafountain. a packed half hour. red sox and yankees and so much more. "baseball tonight"'s eduardo perez is here and gene on the notre dame coach charlie weis. >> we begin with a bridgestone invitational. tigers woods won this 6 times. 4 shots off the pace as the 2nd round began today. padraig harrington is at minus 7. tim clark so far still playing. 1 shot back at 6 under. clark is through 17. verplank 2 shots off after a 69 today. phil mickelson still on the course. phil min
a move that will stun many observers because ferguson was considering duke, florida, kentucky, indiana and ucla. he said he plans to sign a letter of intent in november. >> red sox versus yankees. so much at stake. boston designated a pl >> now on espnews. red sox ace josh beckett seeking to be the first one to 14 wins faces a.j. burnett and the yankees. the man who was smorthed by the bombers last night smoltz has been designated for assignment and tigers woods remains in par and...
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we came up with pikesville, kentucky. so you are probably familiar. it's a little bit to the east but it is definitely a rural area and did you go to the next shide here you will see that in this rural area of the pikesville, kentucky, you know, when you do a job search on monster you are going find four or 500 jobs in that commutable distance of pico, many of them in pikesville. but what you'll see here is that you don't have near the choices. you don't have near the saturation of jobs in that area and you also have to say why is that? do employers even have access to be able to do this on line? and what i find, that i find it very interesting, is that you will find in these areas that are more rural, companies that have large locations, or are domiciled in metropolitan areas, are recruiting in more world areas the same way they are recruiting in metropolitan areas. i don't live in pikesville. i am recruiting out of d.c. i sitn a centralized operation center and i put aob on a job board or on my own corporate careers site and i say pikesville and exp
we came up with pikesville, kentucky. so you are probably familiar. it's a little bit to the east but it is definitely a rural area and did you go to the next shide here you will see that in this rural area of the pikesville, kentucky, you know, when you do a job search on monster you are going find four or 500 jobs in that commutable distance of pico, many of them in pikesville. but what you'll see here is that you don't have near the choices. you don't have near the saturation of jobs in that...
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. >> russellville, kentucky, taking on peabody, mass. both teams looking for their first win in the little league world series. a wild pitch. matt goenig coming in. massachusetts up 5-1 in the third. later in the inning, matt get i hoffman with two on going down the right field line.y: tha great effort here by the right h fielder, but he cannot hold on. peabody, massachusetts, goes on to win, the final 12-3. they crank out 13 hits for the w. in hopes of keeping the team in arizona, the nhl has filed a bid in u.s. bankruptcy court to purchase the phoenix coyote. in a press release, the league did not say how much they're offering to buy the team. an action is scheduled on september 10th. if the purchase goes through for the nhl, they plan on selling the team to a third party outside the process. >> the american league leader in home run, carlos pena, just added to that lead. he went deep for the 36th time this year. he's got five homers in his last five games. so carlos pena is on a roll, and the rays have a 2-1 lead in toronto. let's hel
. >> russellville, kentucky, taking on peabody, mass. both teams looking for their first win in the little league world series. a wild pitch. matt goenig coming in. massachusetts up 5-1 in the third. later in the inning, matt get i hoffman with two on going down the right field line.y: tha great effort here by the right h fielder, but he cannot hold on. peabody, massachusetts, goes on to win, the final 12-3. they crank out 13 hits for the w. in hopes of keeping the team in arizona, the...
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they start with western kentucky. what are the expectations for this team? >> i think seven wins is a fair place to be. eight i think would be an exemplary season. this is a football team that has talent issues and where they are talented in places they're not real deep. eric barry is their one star player. i think he's the best player to play at tennessee since a guy named peyton manning, but other than him you have to look pretty hard to find their next great star outside of their freshman class. they have talented freshman class that came in and looked good in practice today. but as far as proven guys that can be all-s.e.c. top players, there's not very many of them. >> well, we know lane kiffin's father knows a thing or two about defense, but the offense seems to be where most people think lane kiffin will leave his fingerprint. how different will this offense be under kiffin compared to fulmer? >> i think it's going to be different than what it was last year under dave clausen. he was the offensive coordinator now at bowling g reen. they did a lot of qu
they start with western kentucky. what are the expectations for this team? >> i think seven wins is a fair place to be. eight i think would be an exemplary season. this is a football team that has talent issues and where they are talented in places they're not real deep. eric barry is their one star player. i think he's the best player to play at tennessee since a guy named peyton manning, but other than him you have to look pretty hard to find their next great star outside of their...
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. >> that chair now recognizes the gentleman from kentucky, mr. whitfield, for two minutes for opening statements. >> excuse me. i didn't see you back there. you just walked in. okay. >> you can go to mr. whitfield, he was here before me. and then come back to me after the next. >> you all work that out. mr. whitfield. >> we are all very polite today, so thank you very much. mr. chairman, i want to thank you also for holding yet another important hearing examining the ongoing financial crisis and ways we can help our constituents get through these difficult times and mitigate future problems. secretary geithner said that this new consumer financial protection agency would have only one mission, and that is to protect consumers. it's also my understanding that this proposal would eliminate the consumer protections that the fdic, the federal reserve board, comptroller of the currency, any impact on the ftc -- perhaps we should explore expanding the authority of the ftc. another problem that concerns me about the proposed legislation is that there is
. >> that chair now recognizes the gentleman from kentucky, mr. whitfield, for two minutes for opening statements. >> excuse me. i didn't see you back there. you just walked in. okay. >> you can go to mr. whitfield, he was here before me. and then come back to me after the next. >> you all work that out. mr. whitfield. >> we are all very polite today, so thank you very much. mr. chairman, i want to thank you also for holding yet another important hearing examining...
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angela is joining us from kentucky, good morning. >> caller: to your guest, i am in support of extending this program. just watching the results from last week what less than a week implementation and seeing the massive response that's going on at dealerships nationwide, people need to realize that within the auto industry there's so many related businesses that require employees. this has the big potential if this is extended to put people back to work and really gin things up especially to the states that's been so hard hit by this downturn. and i think we really need to give this another chance at extending it. i ask anybody out there supporting this to, please, call their senator now. tell them they sport this -- support this, i think this is too important to let slip by. thank you. >> host: angela, thank you for the call. did you want to respond? >> guest: oh. we agree. i mean, we hope the program does continue, and, you know, you're right there is a lot of ancillary effect from having a program like this. most importantly, it creates the excitement back into the economy. it gets pe
angela is joining us from kentucky, good morning. >> caller: to your guest, i am in support of extending this program. just watching the results from last week what less than a week implementation and seeing the massive response that's going on at dealerships nationwide, people need to realize that within the auto industry there's so many related businesses that require employees. this has the big potential if this is extended to put people back to work and really gin things up especially...
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kentucky has a huge complex for the state fair, but with the multiple venues. that is where the university of louisville basketball team played their games here consequent, it is a huge parking lot with a ring road that goes all around the operation. and 70 was to drive through to pay your fair into the parking lot. this is a picture of that complex on how extensive it is. we figured we would try to use this. by the way, we've moved to this particular version of access to population after organizing point of dispensing in schools. our first effort was, we have all the schools over the community. we can use the schools as a place to provide medication, vaccines, what have you. . . to pay tolls. we put together this particular sheet to give us an objective, a directive of what we wanted to do. you can see our goal was to provide 60 vaccinations per booth beginning at 10:00 so we put the word out to the community. we're giving fe
kentucky has a huge complex for the state fair, but with the multiple venues. that is where the university of louisville basketball team played their games here consequent, it is a huge parking lot with a ring road that goes all around the operation. and 70 was to drive through to pay your fair into the parking lot. this is a picture of that complex on how extensive it is. we figured we would try to use this. by the way, we've moved to this particular version of access to population after...
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kentucky has a huge complex for the state fair with multiple venues. that's where the univerrity of louisville basketball team plays big in. consequently it is a huge parking lot with a ring road that goes all the way around the operation, and seven booth to drive through, to pay your fare into the parking lot. this is a picture of that complex and how extensive it is. we thought we would try to use this. by the way, we moved to this particular version of access to populations after organizing a point of dispensing and sculpted our first ever was, so we have all the schools all over the community we can use the schools as a place to provide mecation, vaccines, what have you. and found difficulty with logistics. the road that schools were not built on roads that were huge big enough for lots of people to come through. and they were in smaller communities and have small parking lot. we began looking for other ways to address this issue. we came upon the idea of using the fairgrounds. this is a photograph of what you see when you come to that main road. t
kentucky has a huge complex for the state fair with multiple venues. that's where the univerrity of louisville basketball team plays big in. consequently it is a huge parking lot with a ring road that goes all the way around the operation, and seven booth to drive through, to pay your fare into the parking lot. this is a picture of that complex and how extensive it is. we thought we would try to use this. by the way, we moved to this particular version of access to populations after organizing...
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these are in the states like kentucky, ohio, west virginia, montana, and my home state of wyoming. do the authors of cap and trade want to truly tap into that? no. america has that and more. we also have the wind, the solar, the geothermal, the biomass, the hydropower, we have it all, and we can develop it in a responsible way. what puts us in a better position to win the energy race with india and china? well, the answer is american energy. the authors of cap and trade don't want to develop all american energy resources. they want to start the energy race with china and india two laps behind as opposed to three laps ahead. the more emergency america can -- energy america can produce, the stronger the economy will be. energy development creatings jobs. not just green jobs but red, white, and blue jobs. we need them all, and the solution rests on our shores. thank you, madam chairman. >> thank you, senator barrasso. senator merkley. >> thank you very much, madam chair. it's a delight to have you all here today. it's clear there's a central message that we have here in the united sta
these are in the states like kentucky, ohio, west virginia, montana, and my home state of wyoming. do the authors of cap and trade want to truly tap into that? no. america has that and more. we also have the wind, the solar, the geothermal, the biomass, the hydropower, we have it all, and we can develop it in a responsible way. what puts us in a better position to win the energy race with india and china? well, the answer is american energy. the authors of cap and trade don't want to develop...
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$4 million for a fruit lab in west virginia to $2 million for an animal waste research facility in kentucky. so another amendment that i filed proposes to strike th the $50.7 million contained in this bill for usda's resource conservation and development program known as rc and d's. the rc and d program was created in 1962 to promote resource conservation through a community based conservation leadership council. the rc and d council helped to leverage local founding for efforts like soil mapping or erosion control. the administration supports terminating this program because in their own words after 47 years the goal of the rc and d program has been accomplished much these councils have developed sufficiently strong state and local ties and are now able to secure funding for their continued operation without federal assistance. the program has been in operation for decades and these councils have a proven track record of success showing that they have outlived the need for federal funding. a half century's old program proposed for termination by this administration yet retained by appropri
$4 million for a fruit lab in west virginia to $2 million for an animal waste research facility in kentucky. so another amendment that i filed proposes to strike th the $50.7 million contained in this bill for usda's resource conservation and development program known as rc and d's. the rc and d program was created in 1962 to promote resource conservation through a community based conservation leadership council. the rc and d council helped to leverage local founding for efforts like soil...
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this is one of the banks, and you can see the tarc official leading this bus, which is from the kentucky national guard where the s & s -- the strategic national stockpile was brought to us to break down. that's upstairs and another bank. i'm moving a little fast because of timing. i wanted to stop for this for a minute one of the things we recognized that in order for us to be able to address anything at any time, we had better do some prepreparedness work. we then establish about a dozen of these trailers with everything that we would possibly need at any one location throughout the city. they are sitting ready right now in something called louisville underground which is a big cavern in metro louisville. all we have to do is hook up a truck to these and take them out to the location, break them down with our staff and we're ready to go. all this exercise has been very helpful to us to get us ready. let me go through a few slides on some local considerations and then something from our national association of county and health officials. obviously, the necessity for partnerships and mu
this is one of the banks, and you can see the tarc official leading this bus, which is from the kentucky national guard where the s & s -- the strategic national stockpile was brought to us to break down. that's upstairs and another bank. i'm moving a little fast because of timing. i wanted to stop for this for a minute one of the things we recognized that in order for us to be able to address anything at any time, we had better do some prepreparedness work. we then establish about a dozen...
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gas and it's going to create in western new york, western pennsylvania, eastern ohio, west virginia, kentucky -- all the way in an arc through louisiana, mississippi, texas and oklahoma -- a huge zone of people who are going to make money off of the natural resources on their farm land on a scale that nobody thought it was possible 10 years ago. it's an example of new technology. we should lift the ban on developing oil, shale and colorado, wyoming and utah where we have probably three times as big a reserve as saudi arabia does. we should encourage building new oil refineries and natural gas processing plants in the united states. we should reduce bureaucratic obstacles and prevent frivolous litigation. we should encourage new clean coal development plants. people need to remember, china opens a new coal plant every week. if we're going to have any hope of dealing with carbon loading of the atmosphere, you have to have clean coal technologies because you are not going to get rid of coal plants in the next 30 years and coal is the most abundant single american resource in terms of energy. we
gas and it's going to create in western new york, western pennsylvania, eastern ohio, west virginia, kentucky -- all the way in an arc through louisiana, mississippi, texas and oklahoma -- a huge zone of people who are going to make money off of the natural resources on their farm land on a scale that nobody thought it was possible 10 years ago. it's an example of new technology. we should lift the ban on developing oil, shale and colorado, wyoming and utah where we have probably three times as...